Registration is now open.

Keynote speakers:

Professor Laurence C. Smith (UCLA), author of The New North: The World in 2050
Professor Faye Hammill (University of Strathclyde), author of Sophistication: A Literary and Cultural History: 2012 Eccles Lecture
Mr Doug Saunders, European Bureau Chief, The Globe and Mail and author of Arrival City
Professor Laurent Lepage, University of Québec à Montreal, author of Le projet de restauration du fleuve Saint-Laurent
H.E. Mr Gordon Campbell, High Commissioner for Canada

We are delighted to announce that, for the second year running, artist Heather Spears will be present to create a visual record the conference with her delightful drawings.


The Prix du Québec consists of two awards of £1,000 (each) offered by the Québec Government Office in London and administered by BACS. It is designed to assist researchers based in the UK to carry out research related to Québec by facilitating a research visit to Québec.

Deadline: 28 February of each year (decision within 28 days).
 
Guidelines or further information from Jodie Robson, Administrator, British Association for Canadian Studies,  tel: 01289 387331 / mobile 07967 374554

 

At Home in the World? - questioning the Canadian self-image of disinterested internationalism

 

You are cordially invited to attend the following event at the Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London     

 

Speaker: Hector Mackenzie, Senior Historian at the Canadian Dept of External Relations in Ottawa
Date: Tuesday 21 February
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Venue: Room 264 (Senate House, second floor)
Senate House
Malet Street

London WC1E 7HU 

 

 

Canada in a Changing World

   

  

The annual conference of the BACS History and Politics Group that follows the TSA annual conference will take place on Thursday 12 and Friday 13 July at Senate House, University of London. The theme of this year's conference is the War of 1812 and already over 60 papers have been confirmed for the two day conference, including several from TSA members. The conference will be a major event and will lead to a two volume collection of papers on the War of 1812. The conference organisers are Phillip Buckner, Tony McCulloch and John McAleer.  

 

 

Eccles Centre Visiting Fellowship in North American Studies 

Report: Dr Gillian Roberts, University of Nottingham

 

The Eccles Centre Visiting Fellowship in North American Studies has been of enormous help to me during my current research project, Discrepant Parallels: Cultural Implications of the Canada-US Border. Although I was fortunate to receive a year of teaching relief from my institution in 2011, this time would not have been as productive without the support of the fellowship and the access it afforded me to the British Library's superb collection of materials relating to North American culture. My access to the British Library during this period provided me with the necessary research to complete three chapters of my monograph, my introduction, and to make important progress with my fourth chapter as well. I cannot imagine anywhere in the UK providing access to such varied materials as a nineteenth-century edition of Anna Brownell Jameson's North American travel narrative Winter Studies and Summer Rambles, Indigenous legal studies and scholarship on the impact of the Canadian Constitution on Indigenous groups, criticism on African-Canadian drama, and US-Mexico border studies. When I first devised my project, I did not quite anticipate the depth of specialised research that each of my chapters would require, and I have been incredibly fortunate that the British Library has met my research needs so thoroughly. Finally, the working space afforded by the British Library has been invaluable to my research and writing, including the rapid access to material as well as simply the quiet of the reading rooms which is so effective in facilitating scholarly endeavour. I am immensely grateful to the Eccles Centre for the Visiting Fellowship in North American Studies, and can say without hesitation that my period of the study at the British Library has been the most productive of my project as a whole.  

 

  

Volume 27 (October 2012) of the London Journal of Canadian Studies, the on-line journal of the London Canadian Studies Association (LoCSA), will be a themed issue on 'Canada's "special relationships"' based largely on papers given at the BACS History and Politics Group annual conference in July 2011. Articles submitted so far, or in the pipeline, include Canada's relations with Britain, the USA, France, NATO and the EU. There is still room for one or two more articles on any of the above or on Canada's other "special relationships" such as the Arctic, Mexico, the Netherlands, Afghanistan, etc. The journal is multidisciplinary so articles are welcome from any disciplinary or interdisciplinary perspective including history, politics, international relations, literature, film and art.

 

The deadline for submission of articles is 13 July 2012. All articles will be sent to two anonymous reviewers in July 2012 and successful ones will be published, subject to amendments, in October 2012. Articles should be 5,000-10,000 words in length and include endnotes and a bibliography. The house style can be seen by accessing the journal via the LoCSA website.  

 

The current volume of the London Journal (Volume 26, published October 2011, guest editor: Tracie Scott) is entitled 'Indigenous Peoples: Historical Understanding, Contemporary Challenges and Canadian Approaches' and resulted from a conference organised by the Aboriginal Studies Circle in London in October 2009.

Articles are welcome from established academics, early careerists and doctoral students. The journal is now in its 27th year and its articles have frequently been submitted to the RAE. Submissions should be made in the form of a Word document to the editor, Dr Tony McCulloch  by 13 July 2012.

 
The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW, formerly known as British Historians of Women in the Americas) will hold their fifth annual conference on Wednesday 14th March 2012 at Brunel University, west London.
 
We welcome papers on any aspect of women's and gender history in North America, South America and the Caribbean.  Papers that investigate women's lives from single or multiple vantage points whether topically or geographically are equally welcome.  Scholars working on related topics are encouraged to put together a panel of two to four papers.  Speakers at the event will have the opportunity to submit their paper for consideration in SHAW's journal, History of Women in the Americas.
 
A 250 word abstract should be submitted to SHAW's secretary, Dr Rachel Ritchie (rachel.ritchie@brunel.ac.uk), by Tuesday 14th February 2012.  Those interested in attending the conference as a delegate are more than welcome as well and should register their interest by this date too.  All other enquiries about the conference, SHAW and History of Women in the Americas, should also be directed to Dr Ritchie.
 
The conference fee is payable upon confirmation of your paper being accepted (or upon confirmation of your place in the case of delegates not giving papers).  This will be in mid- to late-February.  For non-SHAW members, the conference fee is £55 (waged) and £35 (postgraduate/undergraduate/unwaged); this includes a year's membership of the organisation.  For SHAW members, the cost is £28 (waged) and £22 (postgraduate/undergraduate/unwaged).

The conference will be hosted by Kingston University, London, on 22-23 June 2012. Abstracts of 250 words by email please, deadline 9 March.

 

CSN-REC Policy on funding graduate students outside of Canada to attend Canadian conferences

 

 Graduate students studying at universities outside of Canada can apply for funding to assist with the costs of participating in either:

 

• Canadian Studies conferences
• or conferences deemed by the selection of the CSN-REC awards committee to have themes and content relevant to the study of Canada/furthering the field of Canadian Studies 

to be held in Canada. Contingent on available funds a maximum of $1000 CAN can be awarded available to students to support travel (normally limited to economy airfare and ground transportation). Preference will be given to members national Canadian Studies Associations.

 

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